 | George Barrell Cheever - American poetry - 1830 - 516 pages
...the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forc'd in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wint'ry faggot from the...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. 15 THE VILLAGE PASTOR. NEAR yonder copse, where once the garden smil'd And still where many a garden... | |
 | Thomas F. Walker - English poetry - 1830 - 256 pages
...plashing spring : She, wretched matron, forc'd, in age, for bread. To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep tilHnorn; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder... | |
 | Scotland - 1833 - 1056 pages
...forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry fagot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn." These things our insight to futurity enables us to see ! Oh, then, silence those deceitful bells, or... | |
 | Tasmania - 1834 - 374 pages
...matron, forc'd in age for bread To pick the brook, with mantling cresses spread. To pull her wintery faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain." After looking attentively over the beautiful simplicity of dress, in which the foregoing extracts are... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 438 pages
...the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forc'd in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the...once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild, There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose, The village preacher's modest... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 582 pages
...the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forc'd in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the...harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain. <2) (1) [Sir Joshua Reynolds from this passage took the idea of his painting of ' Resignation,' of... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - English literature - 1837 - 534 pages
...the plashy spring ; She, wretched matron, forc'd in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the...the harmless train, The sad historian of the pensive plain/4) (1) [Sir Joshua Reynolds from this passage took the idea of his painting of ' Resignation,'... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1838 - 544 pages
...the plashy pring ; She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling plai . Near yonder copse, where once the arden smil'd, And still where many a garden flower grows wild... | |
 | Samuel Carter Hall - English poetry - 1837 - 448 pages
...wretehed matron, forc'd in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling eresses spread, To piek her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly...The sad historian of the pensive plain. Near yonder eopse, where once the garden smil'd, And still where many a garden flow'r grows wild, There, where... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1837 - 472 pages
...bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn 5 To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn; She...pensive plain. Near yonder copse, where once the garden smiled, And still where many a garden flower grows wild; There, where a few torn shrubs the place disclose,... | |
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She, wretched matron, forced in age, for bread, To strip the brook with mantling cresses spread, To pick her wintry faggot from the thorn, To seek her nightly shed, and weep till morn ; She only left of all the harmless train, The sad historian of the... 
